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L. A. BIGGAR GI-JARD April 21, 1925. 1,534,496

Filed Jan. 2, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR ATTORNEY April 21, 1925.1,534,496

:L. A. BIGGAR GUARD Filed Jan; 2, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet z INVENTOR it I II ATTORNEY WITNESS:

Patented Apr. 21, 1925.

ICE.

'IIEROY A. BIGGAR, 01? ONEIDA, NEW YORK.

GUARD.

Application filed January 2, 1924. Serial No. 684,053.

To all whom it may concern .1

. Be it known that I LEROY A. BIGGAR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oneida, in the county of Madison and State of New York, haveinvented new anduseful Improvements lowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a guard for a punch press, the general objectof the in-' vention being to provide means for preventing th-eoperatorfrom accidentally placing his hand in the press and thusinjuringhimself.

, like or corresponding parts throughout the i as opposite tlon. The

Another object of the invention is to so form the device that it can beeasily and quickly placed in operative or inoperative position asdesired.

This invention also consists in certain other features of constructionand in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to behereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawingsand specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

erence will. be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like charactersdenote several views, and in which Figure 1 is a front view of a pressshowing the device in use.

igure 2 is a similar in raised position. j

Figure 3 isa side view with the device in lowered position in full linesand in raised position in dotted lines.

Figures 4, 5 and 6 are detail views of the device itsel. i

In these views 1. indicates a long bolt upon which a plurality offingers 2 are threaded, the fingers being spaced apart by the washers 3.The fingers are arranged in two sets with the fingers of the differentsets extending in directions though said fingers can be adjusted toextendin any desired direcends of the bolt pass through the eye members4, the parts being held assembled on the bolt by its headengaging oneeye member and its end 5, engaging the other eye member. Each eye memberpasses view with the device a through a. loop formed on a link 6 and arod 7 is supported by a loop at the other end 1 of this link. Each rod 7passes through a neat-ed with each link 8 by a rod 10 which in Guards,of which the fol-.

\ be easily passes through loops formed on the links. Each link 9 has alooped end engaging the stem of an eye member 11, the eye of which isfastened to the ears of a; bracket 12 by the bolt 13. These brackets areadapted to be bolted to a press such as shown at A and it will be seenthat by reason of the various hinge connections the device can beadjusted so that it will fit almost any kind of a press and that it iscapable of being swung upwardly so as to expose the opening in thepress, as shown by the dotted lines in F igure 3 but can be swungdownwardly as shown in Figure 1. The lingers can also be adjusted tovarious positions. The fingers are made a suitable length to guard thedie and also guard the press head.

From the t'oregoing it will be seen that the device can be easily andquickly adjusted to it is to be used and it can moved to any desiredposition by the operator to permit him to place the obthe press onwhichsets to be worked in the press and to remove y j v p them therefrom andit the operator does not In describlng my invention 1n detail, refwishto use it, it can be swung upwardly out of the way without unlooseningany bolts.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages andnovel features of my invention will be readily apparent.

I. desire it to be understood. that I may make changes in theconstruction and the combination and arrangement of the several parts,provided that such changes lall within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is i 1. Afguard of the class described comprising a bolt,aplurality of fingers threaded thereon, washers threaded on the bolt forspacing the fingers apart, eye members for supporting the bolt, a pairof brackets and supporting the bolt, a pair. of brackets and a.plurality bf hinged partsfor connecting the brackets with the eyemembers, said hinged parts comprising a number of looped links and rodsengaglng the loops and the eye members having stems for engaging some ofthe loops. loop formed one l1nk8 and a link 9 1s con- In testimonywhereof I aflix mysignature. LEROY A. BIGGAR.

